John Feminella
@jxf.me
🥰: bits, bots, bucks, blocks
⏪: Two Sigma, EY, HHCS, Thoughtworks, Pivotal, Forge.
👤: Thing builder, conf speaker, curiosity advocate, dad.
⏪: Two Sigma, EY, HHCS, Thoughtworks, Pivotal, Forge.
👤: Thing builder, conf speaker, curiosity advocate, dad.
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John Feminella
@jxf.me
· Jun 26
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👋 Hi, Bluesky.
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👋 Hi, Bluesky.
Saddened to hear about this. I only met Mike once, years and years ago, but he was as funny in person as he was online. He brought me a lot of joy and his material was consistently hilarious.
Very sad to say it seems Mike Fossey, aka Mike F. has died. Truly one of the funniest posters of all time and a talented artisan. Had been friends online for many years, but I got to hang out a couple times at shows in Boston and he was funny and sweet in real life too.
Michael F. Fossey Obituary December 22, 2025 - Westford Healy Funeral Home
View Michael F. Fossey's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
www.healyfuneralhome.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Saddened to hear about this. I only met Mike once, years and years ago, but he was as funny in person as he was online. He brought me a lot of joy and his material was consistently hilarious.
Oswald Cobblepot is rubbing his fins together in anticipatory glee.
December 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Oswald Cobblepot is rubbing his fins together in anticipatory glee.
Absolutely trashing your older or larger sibling in Mario Kart, thus demonstrating to both parties that physical might can sometimes be defeated by smarts, is an essential part of child development no matter the tears or distress that may follow. In this essay I will
December 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Absolutely trashing your older or larger sibling in Mario Kart, thus demonstrating to both parties that physical might can sometimes be defeated by smarts, is an essential part of child development no matter the tears or distress that may follow. In this essay I will
In this house, Madonna's "Holiday" is a Christmas song.
Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating.🎄
Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating.🎄
December 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
In this house, Madonna's "Holiday" is a Christmas song.
Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating.🎄
Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating.🎄
Infuriated at this box of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes™️ Glazed Donut Holes.
A sphere is the mathematically worst possible three-dimensional object for this! It has the lowest ratio of surface area to volume. Literally anything else would be better.
See me after class. F.
A sphere is the mathematically worst possible three-dimensional object for this! It has the lowest ratio of surface area to volume. Literally anything else would be better.
See me after class. F.
December 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Infuriated at this box of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes™️ Glazed Donut Holes.
A sphere is the mathematically worst possible three-dimensional object for this! It has the lowest ratio of surface area to volume. Literally anything else would be better.
See me after class. F.
A sphere is the mathematically worst possible three-dimensional object for this! It has the lowest ratio of surface area to volume. Literally anything else would be better.
See me after class. F.
me: "Count to 50."
Gemini 2.5 Pro: [emits 3.7 kg of CO2]
Gemini 2.5 Pro: [emits 3.7 kg of CO2]
December 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
me: "Count to 50."
Gemini 2.5 Pro: [emits 3.7 kg of CO2]
Gemini 2.5 Pro: [emits 3.7 kg of CO2]
You may have heard that in three weeks, the affordability provisions that make healthcare accessible for about 20 million Americans will expire.
Healthcare in the US is already very expensive. The lapse of these provisions will make it even more so.
But what exactly does that mean?
Healthcare in the US is already very expensive. The lapse of these provisions will make it even more so.
But what exactly does that mean?
December 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
You may have heard that in three weeks, the affordability provisions that make healthcare accessible for about 20 million Americans will expire.
Healthcare in the US is already very expensive. The lapse of these provisions will make it even more so.
But what exactly does that mean?
Healthcare in the US is already very expensive. The lapse of these provisions will make it even more so.
But what exactly does that mean?
In 2014, Adult Swim released an infomercial for "SmartPipe", a fictitious "wellness device" that attaches to your toilet and scans your waste for marketing purposes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJkl...
In 2025, Kohler released Dekoda, which does the exact same thing: www.kohlerhealth.com/dekoda/
In 2025, Kohler released Dekoda, which does the exact same thing: www.kohlerhealth.com/dekoda/
Smart Pipe | Infomercials | Adult Swim
YouTube video by Adult Swim
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
In 2014, Adult Swim released an infomercial for "SmartPipe", a fictitious "wellness device" that attaches to your toilet and scans your waste for marketing purposes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJkl...
In 2025, Kohler released Dekoda, which does the exact same thing: www.kohlerhealth.com/dekoda/
In 2025, Kohler released Dekoda, which does the exact same thing: www.kohlerhealth.com/dekoda/
Cloudflare being down is like a snow day for adults.
Unless you support something that runs on Cloudflare, in which case it's more like having to fire up the snowplow.
Unless you support something that runs on Cloudflare, in which case it's more like having to fire up the snowplow.
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Cloudflare being down is like a snow day for adults.
Unless you support something that runs on Cloudflare, in which case it's more like having to fire up the snowplow.
Unless you support something that runs on Cloudflare, in which case it's more like having to fire up the snowplow.
In this house, we obtain our facts only from America's finest news source.
December 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
In this house, we obtain our facts only from America's finest news source.
Tired: Elf on a Shelf
Wired: Elf with a Ring
Wired: Elf with a Ring
a close up of a woman 's face with the words all shall love me and despair written in yellow .
ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with the words all shall love me and despair written in yellow .
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Tired: Elf on a Shelf
Wired: Elf with a Ring
Wired: Elf with a Ring
When your job description includes "other duties as assigned".
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
When your job description includes "other duties as assigned".
We have the NTSB for regulating airline safety because airplanes are valuable to society, but also dangerous if not properly operated and maintained. It's made air travel safe and effective over decades.
Will there eventually be an AI Safety Board?
Will there eventually be an AI Safety Board?
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We have the NTSB for regulating airline safety because airplanes are valuable to society, but also dangerous if not properly operated and maintained. It's made air travel safe and effective over decades.
Will there eventually be an AI Safety Board?
Will there eventually be an AI Safety Board?
Happy Biweekly Cloud Outage Day to all who celebrate.
(This biweekly patron saint is Cloudflare.)
(This biweekly patron saint is Cloudflare.)
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Happy Biweekly Cloud Outage Day to all who celebrate.
(This biweekly patron saint is Cloudflare.)
(This biweekly patron saint is Cloudflare.)
📃 After doing this about 100 times in the past year, I can comfortably say operating AI agents in production environments is both:
1️⃣ very different than conventional software, and yet
2️⃣ not so different that it justifies an entirely new parallel ecosystem of software providers specific to agents.
1️⃣ very different than conventional software, and yet
2️⃣ not so different that it justifies an entirely new parallel ecosystem of software providers specific to agents.
November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
📃 After doing this about 100 times in the past year, I can comfortably say operating AI agents in production environments is both:
1️⃣ very different than conventional software, and yet
2️⃣ not so different that it justifies an entirely new parallel ecosystem of software providers specific to agents.
1️⃣ very different than conventional software, and yet
2️⃣ not so different that it justifies an entirely new parallel ecosystem of software providers specific to agents.
Endlessly funny to me that the Swift shortcode for "payments initiation" is "pain". Very apt if you've ever tried to implement this yourself without reference to the standard!
November 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Endlessly funny to me that the Swift shortcode for "payments initiation" is "pain". Very apt if you've ever tried to implement this yourself without reference to the standard!
Devastating economic news.
November 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Devastating economic news.
🤯 You can mousewheel-scroll the tabs in Firefox's tab bar! Had no idea you could do this and just stumbled into it today by pure accident.
Now that I am no longer fettered by the primitive chains of my screen resolution, I'm about to be an absolute menace to my 64 GiB.
Now that I am no longer fettered by the primitive chains of my screen resolution, I'm about to be an absolute menace to my 64 GiB.
November 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🤯 You can mousewheel-scroll the tabs in Firefox's tab bar! Had no idea you could do this and just stumbled into it today by pure accident.
Now that I am no longer fettered by the primitive chains of my screen resolution, I'm about to be an absolute menace to my 64 GiB.
Now that I am no longer fettered by the primitive chains of my screen resolution, I'm about to be an absolute menace to my 64 GiB.
Happy surprise unit test failure day to all who celebrate in the US!
November 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Happy surprise unit test failure day to all who celebrate in the US!
"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law."
— Óscar Raimundo Benavides, Peruvian general and later its authoritarian President
— Óscar Raimundo Benavides, Peruvian general and later its authoritarian President
November 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law."
— Óscar Raimundo Benavides, Peruvian general and later its authoritarian President
— Óscar Raimundo Benavides, Peruvian general and later its authoritarian President
First AWS, now Azure. It's going to be a month of hugops.
Currently seeing outages on:
* Azure Portal
* Azure Front Door
* Azure CDNs
DNS strikes again, maybe. Are you being similarly affected? Would love to hear what's up/down for you because the Azure status page is still mostly green.
Currently seeing outages on:
* Azure Portal
* Azure Front Door
* Azure CDNs
DNS strikes again, maybe. Are you being similarly affected? Would love to hear what's up/down for you because the Azure status page is still mostly green.
October 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
First AWS, now Azure. It's going to be a month of hugops.
Currently seeing outages on:
* Azure Portal
* Azure Front Door
* Azure CDNs
DNS strikes again, maybe. Are you being similarly affected? Would love to hear what's up/down for you because the Azure status page is still mostly green.
Currently seeing outages on:
* Azure Portal
* Azure Front Door
* Azure CDNs
DNS strikes again, maybe. Are you being similarly affected? Would love to hear what's up/down for you because the Azure status page is still mostly green.
In light of the upcoming SNAP suspensions in the US, it's worth pointing out that Walmart captures 25% of all SNAP expenditures: www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tren...
Walmart brings in the most SNAP dollars, some 25% of all sales
But SNAP recipients overall are struggling, according to new data from Numerator
www.supermarketnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
In light of the upcoming SNAP suspensions in the US, it's worth pointing out that Walmart captures 25% of all SNAP expenditures: www.supermarketnews.com/grocery-tren...
Love to start Mondays with elevator malfunctions and 100 dB buzzer sounds.
October 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Love to start Mondays with elevator malfunctions and 100 dB buzzer sounds.
The NYT is running a story about how a certain mayoral candidate's name is hard to pronounce.
But English is the same language that has "onomatopoeia", "isthmus", and "Worcestershire". It can definitely make room for pronouncing Zohran Mamdani correctly.
I believe in you. Sound it out!
But English is the same language that has "onomatopoeia", "isthmus", and "Worcestershire". It can definitely make room for pronouncing Zohran Mamdani correctly.
I believe in you. Sound it out!
October 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The NYT is running a story about how a certain mayoral candidate's name is hard to pronounce.
But English is the same language that has "onomatopoeia", "isthmus", and "Worcestershire". It can definitely make room for pronouncing Zohran Mamdani correctly.
I believe in you. Sound it out!
But English is the same language that has "onomatopoeia", "isthmus", and "Worcestershire". It can definitely make room for pronouncing Zohran Mamdani correctly.
I believe in you. Sound it out!